Niet het 'ik denk', maar de taal is primair

"It is not the thinking or the reflective I that withstands the test of universal doubt (Apel, 1981), it is time and the phrase. It does not result from the phrase, I doubt, that I am, merely that there has been a phrase. Another phrase (the one we just read: There has been a phrase) has linked onto the first one by presenting itself as what follows it. And a third one, the one we just read, / There has been a phrase / follows / I doubt /, has linked onto the first two by presenting their linkage in the form of a temporally ordered series (There has been. . . , follows .  . .)." (Lyotard 1988, The Differend, p. 59)